Egg beater



LE ROY '1. DEKIN.

EGG BEATER. APPucATmNArILED JuLY1o,192o.

Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

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Patented Nov. 28, 1922.

UNITED STATES LE ROY J. DEKIN, OF ILION, NEW YORK.

EGG BEATEB.

Application filed. July 10, 1920. Serial No. 395,306.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ln ROY J. DEKIN,k

My present invention relates to a beatingy device particularly adapted to be used in beating eggs or whipping cream.

The purpose of my invention is to provide an improved device of the character described and one which is simple and economical in construction and durable and efficient in operation.

A further purpose is to provide a beating device operated through successive pulls upon a cord being used to rotate a weighted wheel or balance wheel and which beating device is complete in itself and may be placed in any suitable bowl or other receptacle without having to be attached to the receptacle and without the receptacle having any special parts or attachments to be engaged by the beater.

A'further purpose is to provide an article of the class described having details of construction and arrangement of parts which insures ease of operation, cleanliness and strength.

Fig. 1 is a side view of a beating device embodying my invention asit would appear in operation in a bowl.

Fig. 2 is a vertical central and longitudinal sectional view of the beater shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings in a more particular description it will be seen that the beater comprises a vertical shaft 5 having a handle 6 at its upper end, a weighted wheel or balance wheel 7 with an upwardly extended hub 8 mounted on the shaft towards its upper end and a beating blade or beat ing blades 9 rigidly secured to the wheel 7 and projecting downward therefrom.

The shaft 5 may conveniently be formed from a suitable length of small rod or stiff wire bent in any desired way so as to provide a suitable handle 6 at the upper end of the shaft; Preferably also the same rod or wire from which the shaft is made is of sutlicient length to provide an arm 10 pro-. jecting out from the shaft just below the handle G and then downwardly to a' point opposite the middle of the hub 8 and there provided with an eye 11 for a purpose to be explained hereafter.

The weighted wheel or balance wheel 7 having the long upwardly extending hub 8 isy mounted to be very freely rotated upon thek shaft 5 towards thev upper end of said shaft, but fixed from longitudinal move ment upon said shaft. A convenient and the preferred form of so mounting the wheel 7 is to provide upper and lower sleeves 12 and llrespectively upon the shaft 5 above the upper end of the hubv 8 and below the wheel 7. The lower end of the upper sleeve 12 and the upper end of the lower sleeve 13 are tapering or conical in form so as to project a short distance into the axial aperture or bore 14 of the wheel 7 and the long hub 8, it being understood that the bore 14 is of larger diameter than the shaft 5 which extends therethrough. ln this way it will vbe seen the sleeves 12 and 13 provide bearings at the upper and lower end of the combined wheel 7 and hub 8. These bearing sleeves 12 and 13 may be held infplace upon the shaft 5 by set screws 15.

`Secured to the wheel 7 preferably to the lower side thereof as by screws or other fastening means 16 are the beating blades 9. These blades may be of any desired formy and number. In the drawing they are shown as two blades formed from one piece of metal bent into loop-shape with t'he two ends of the strip or piece of metal bent at right angles so as to be readily fastened to the under surface of the wheel 7 by the screw 1G.' The lower end of this loop-shaped form of beater blades is rotatably mounted upon the shaft 5 close to its lower end by` simply providing a hole in thestrip of metal forming the blades at that point.

To the hub 8 is secured one end of a fleX ible member such as a cord 17 which is threaded through the eye 11 in the depending arm 10 and has its free end outside said eye to be grasped by the operator for manual operation of the device.

The operation of my device is asfollows: The device will be placed in the bowl or other receptacle 18 containing the eggs to be beaten or the cream to be whipped with the lower end ot' ythe shaft 5 resting upon the bottom of the bowl and with the device held secure-ly in place by the operator grasping the handle 6. The cord will first be wound up upon the shaft 8 and then the operator will give the free end of the cord a sharp pull which will obviously cause the weighted wheel 7 to rotate rapidly carrying therewith the beater blades 9. After the cord has been entirely unwound from the hub 8 the momentum given the weighted wheel 7 lfrom the previous pull will continue to make the wheel 7 rotate in the same direction which will cause the cord 17 to be re-wound upon the hub 8 but in a direction' reverse tothat in which it was first wound thereupon.

After the cord is nearly ire-wound upon the hub 8 the operator holds back upon the tree end ot the cord enough t0 arrest the motion of the beater it' it is not already stopped and then gives the cord another pull which operates to rapidly revolve the wheel- 7 and its attached parts in the reverse direction. After the wheel has rotated in this direction sufficiently to unwind the cord therefrom the rotation of the wheel continues in the same direction sutliciently to again rewind the cord upon the hub, but in the opposite direction or in the way in which it was first wound upon the hub.

It will thus be seen that successive sharp pulls upon the cord will operate to very rapidly rotate the beater blades successively in opposite directions.

It will be seen that the device is very simple and that the beater is complete or' itself without having to be attached in any special way to the receptacle 1S and with out requiring` any special form orP receptacle.

WThat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a beating device the combination of a vertical shaft having a handle at its upper end to hold the shaft stationary, a relatively heavy wheel having an extended hub portion vwith a bore larger than said shaft, sleeves mounted on said shaft above and below said wheel with a conical end on each sleeve entering said bore and affording bearings for said wheel, beating blades secured to and projecting downward from said wheel and a cord secured at one end to and adapted to be wound upon said hub of the wheel whereby successive pulls upon the free end oi'- the cordfrotates the wheel and attached beater blades alternately in oppo site'directions, the lower end .ot the shaft projecting below the blades and adapted to support the device by resting without rotation upon the Ibottom oic a receptacle.

2. In a beating device the combination of a vertical shaft having a handle at its upper end to hold the shaft stationary, a relatively heavy wheel having an extended hub portion with a bore larger than said shalt, sleeves mounted on said shaft above and below said wheel with a conical end on each sleeve entering` said bore and affording bearings ;tor said wheel, beating blades secured to and projecting downward from said wheel and means operatively connected with said wheel tor rotating the same.

In witness whereotI I have aliixed my signature, this 23 day of June, 1920.

LE ROY J. DEKIN. 

